What is wrong with Minnesota?

That is true as well...people and businesses are necessary. So when people kill other people, or hurt them, or when Govt doesn't allow them to work, or shuts down their businesses, or when terrorist fire bomb businesses and loot....we are all hurt.

 

This war is against civilization, with the first attacks coming now by brutish people.

 

Black neighborhoods are the primary targets of most of these riots.
They seldom fully recover - probably not an accident.

 

Yup. They have ALWAYS presided over racial strife, railing and finger-pointing at others.

Assaulted & Vilified, The Cops Save The Cities


"How does 'systemic racism' permeate a blue state dominated for decades by liberal Democrats? What explains the failure of Democrats who have long run Minnesota to root out racism?".

On the fifth night of rioting, looting and arson in Minneapolis, the criminal elements were driven from the streets.

By whom? By the same cops who had been the constant objects of media derision and mob hatred.

Because they were the first responders in these riots, the cops were the first targets of criminal assault and the last line of defense of the law-abiding.

Wherever they had to draw back or pull back, anarchy ensued.

Consider the decision of Mayor Jacob Frey and Police Chief Medaria Arradondo to surrender and abandon the 3rd Precinct. As police cars pulled out and the cops fled, the exhilarated rabble invaded, pillaged and burned the precinct.

And America saw, in astonishment, a triumph of anarchy.

One wonders what the world thought as it, too, watched.

Now, consider the political coloration of Minneapolis.

Frey, who ordered the surrender, is a far-left Democrat. Gov. Tim Walz is a liberal Democrat, as are both U.S. senators including Amy Klobuchar. Minneapolis Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is a soul sister of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

 

Minnesota was the political home of Vice Presidents Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale and Senators Eugene McCarthy and Paul Wellstone, liberal icons all. The state has not voted Republican for president since 1972. Even Ronald Reagan never carried Minnesota.

Yet, of his home state, this citadel of liberalism, Walz said last week, “Systemic racism must be addressed if we are to secure, justice, peace and order for all Minnesotans.”

Query: How does “systemic racism” permeate a blue state dominated for decades by liberal Democrats? What explains the failure of Democrats who have long run Minnesota to root out racism?

Why have liberals failed to exorcise racism where they rule? Are even good Minnesota liberals infected with the virus?

What we witnessed this week in Minneapolis is a failure of liberalism. The leadership of the city and state could not persuade the protesters it claims to represent to remain peaceful. And when rioting, looting and arson erupted, and attacks on police began, that leadership sat morally and politically paralyzed.

The elites could not condemn both the killing of George Floyd and, with equal moral vehemence, the violent and criminal element that came to permeate the ranks of the protesters.

They failed to get sufficient law enforcement or the National Guard into the city on time, or to declare and impose a curfew, or to use requisite force to halt the rioting and looting.

As a result of their incompetence or cowardice, the custodians of the lovely city of Minneapolis let her be gang-raped by a criminal mob.

Why have those leaders not turned in their resignations?

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/buchanan-assaulted-vilified-cops-save-cities

 

Holy hell. And he hasn't lost his job?

 

What a blunder

 

Obama apparently made a public statement today pointing out that elected local officials are ultimately responsible for police departments and the conduct of local police. The truth and nothing but the truth - at last.

 

Cypress College professor: Southern California faculty union criticized the administration at a community collegein Orange County for not supporting an adjunct professor who questioned a student for calling police officers heroes.

I don't believe in "heroes": I believe in empathy. The professor should have shown the film of Lieutenant Billy F. Fields, a high official of the local police department, of how he drove this victim's father around Central City, Tennessee for ten years pursuing fabricated false leads until Claude Mullen, the father of Corinna, died of grief. Lt. Billy Boy continued to be a high official in Central City for 20 years until he was arrested

Billy Boy's picture has been mostly scrubbed from the internet.
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Or the professor could told the story of the Golden State Killer Joseph James DeAngelo, a former police officer in Auburn and Exeter, California who murdered 13 persons and 50 rapes that include a child.

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Or for a more recent story of the Alabama state trooper Christopher Bauer arrested last week on charges he raped an 11-year-old girl had been kicked out of the FBI amid a string of sexual misconduct.

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Criminals will always be found in every organization staffed by human beings. Yet another reason why the Founders opposed relying on armed professional police to keep the peace.

"Perhaps his most famous quote was stated later in his career, about corruption, and police brutality cases within the department: "We'll always have cases like this because we have one big problem in selecting police officers...we have to recruit from the human race." William H. Parker, Police chief of the Los Angeles City Police Department (LAPD).
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5285/william-h.-parker

 

NY is run by Wall St., which is anything but liberal.

Bloomberg isn't liberal, nor is Giuliani. De Blasio is a progressive, but New York itself is not this liberal bastion people pretend it to be.

 

The situation was surely exploited, but three unarmed blacks killed in three months was a coincidence.

 

And the same can be said of San Francisco. Senators Dianne Feinstein (Fascist Whore-Calif.) has blocked all progressive legislation out of California for 41 years while she fills up her Depends diapers.

 

Given their down to earth Scandinavian heritage it is really hard to fathom.

 

What is wrong with Minnesota?

Really cold winters?

 

On a business trip many years ago I left my Minneapolis motel in the morning at minus 28 degrees F -- with no chill factor.

 

Pretty good cheap beer though.

 

It's been a while but I seem to remember reading the state having an average daily low temperature of 6 degrees. Anchorage is significantly warmer. Back when I was a central regional manager Minnesota was part of my responsibility. I've experienced plenty of cold nights there.

 

I've spent a lot of time in Minnesota, all parts, and know lots of people there. Most of Minnesota is rural and those areas are decidedly conservative. But most of the people live in the twin cities and vote liberal. I have noticed that twin cities people are an odd bunch. They are mostly sincerely nice folks and believe in good for everyone. Which puts them in each other's business constantly. They mean well, but tend toward doing what feels good at the moment and virtue signaling. They are generally smart, but don't think things out or learn from past mistakes. They don't believe in tough love because it doesn't make them feel very good about themselves, nor does it make the receiver feel good at the moment (and they want everyone to feel good). The contradiction is that most will give you the shirt off their back if they think you need it, but they then want everyone to know they've done it.

 

Red states have large populations of people of color? Of course not, thus the lack of understanding or caring about black issues.